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Spinning the Inhumanity of our National Policies
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We are failing to govern ourselves. The concept of American democracy has been driven from the field by the public relations industry. The balancing act between the poles of public and private interests, performed so deftly by Chester Bowles, William Benton and Harold Burson in the 1950s to protect us from the deceptions of our leaders and the cynicism of the PR industry founded by Edward Bernays, has collapsed. Spinning the morally indefensible is now embedded in our civic DNA.
From its inception, the leaders of our republic chose misleading words to mask the crimes against humanity committed by the markets they created and profited from:
- Slavery—“our peculiar institution of other persons”
- Freedom seeking men and women—“fugitives”
- Peace-loving, welcoming, conciliatory people of the land—“savages”
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